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The Spanish Regional Science Association (AECR) has awarded its Regional Science Prize to the Ivie for its contribution to economic research

The Spanish Regional Science Association (AECR) has awarded its 5th Prize in Regional Science to the Ivie. This award is given every other year to a scientist or an institution that has significantly contributed to the development of regional studies in Spain. The AECR’s Board of Directors resolved to grant the Ivie with this award in recognition of its track record in promoting economic research as an institution, but also on an individual basis for the work carried out by its researchers.

The AECR was founded in 1976 as a non-profit organization that has among its objectives to study and to promote the importance of regional science in different fields such as the economy, geography, urban planning, architecture, sociology and, in general, all those areas that affect human and institutional behavior.

This is the fifth award given by the AECR. The first was awarded in 2014 to the BBVA Foundation and then subsequently to Geoffrey Hewings, FUNCAS and Jean Paelinck. On this occasion, the award was given during the AECR Annual Meeting and V Valencian Conference on Regional Studies, held in Valencia on November 21-22.

Francisco Pérez, Ivie Research Director, received the award in behalf of the Ivie from the Valencian Regional Minister for Finance and the Economic Model, Vicent Soler.  Pérez had also participated in the AECR Annual Meeting’s session on regional funding. In addition, Ivie Researcher, Alicia Gómez Tello, participated with the paper “The work determinants of industrial location in European regions”.